Saturday, 8 August 2015

Chris Felling on an NPC voice and personality generator

I realize with horror that the fulfilled request I have personally been using the most is also my most neglected. Sorry for not posting this up sooner, Chris Felling!

I realized in writing this that my reference point for famous people is like way out of date but I hope it works for you!

Chris

NPC Personality Generator

Roll 1d4, 1d6 and 1d8 at the same time

Replace results rolled for ever-expanding cast of celebrities and weirdos.

1d4

Humour

1

Sanguine: The character is defined by their happy and active engagement with the world around them. Optimism and courage as their best traits. They may be playful, carefree, imaginative, artistic, friendly, flexible and warm.

Roll

Voice and Mannerisms of... (1d6)

Personality Quirk (1d8)

1

BRIAN BLESSED

Lazy. 1 in 6 chance of goofing off when it counts: not showing up to a meeting, wandering away from the party mid-dungeon crawl, etc.

2

Lightnin' Hopkins

Amateur slam poet.

3

Gilbert Gottfried

Dilettante. Knows a little bit about everything, but not enough to put any of it to use.

4

Ken Nordine

Flirty, with highly ambiguous sexual orientation.

5

Natalie Portman (as inGarden State)

Huggy.

6

Audrey Hepburn

Avid teller and re-teller of dad jokes.

7

Manic Pixie Dream NPC.

8

Best wingman you could ask for. Take them carousing and max out your spending; if bad stuff happens roll twice and pick the result.

2

Choleric: The character is defined by being aggressive and ambitious, being both capable and passionate. Their personalities are restless, impulsive and prickly. They direct their energies outward, making them practical, proud, commanding and leaderly.

Roll

Voice and Mannerisms of... (1d6)

Personality Quirk (1d8)

1

Cary Elwes (in his youth, not in Saw)

Paranoid. Never shares wealth, never shares a watch, eagerly backstabs friends because it was all a plan to take them down from within.Always roll at -1 for their reaction/morale checks.

2

Alex Jones

Works overtime, well into the night, every night.

3

Bruce Willis

Way into local equivalent of Crossfit.

4

Vincent Price

Leader by example only – talent and work ethic admired and emulated; sullen, workaholic friendlessness not so much.

5

Sigourney Weaver

Fedora-wearing libertarian MRA.

6

Katherine Isabelle

Always overdressed for the occasion.

7

Rarefied taste in books, art, food and drink.

8

Itchy trigger finger. Gets +2 to initiative at the start of a fight.

3

Phlegmatic: The character is defined by inwardness. They are a steady, reasonable person. They may be quiet, contented, peaceful, meditative, fixed in habits or rituals.

Roll

Voice and Mannerisms of... (1d6)

Personality Quirk (1d8)

1

Morgan Freeman

Pacifist. Opposed to violence in all its forms. Actively tries to break up fights for 1d4 rounds regardless of how they begin.

2

David Carradine

Motherly or dadly. Affectionate to their juniors.

3

Christopher Walken

Dutiful retainer. Treats superiors with reverence, precise in their work, speaks only if spoken to.

4

Bob Ross

Giver of gifts. Friends have dozens of tokens to show for their friendship.

5

Uma Thurman

Keeper of a very charming, very elaborate personal garden, monument or koi pond.

6

Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Fältskog from ABBA.

In adorable long-term relationship with first and only lover, who they've known since childhood.

7

Graceful under fire, never loses their cool.

8

Eidetic memory.

4

Melancholic: The character is defined by their seriousness and moodiness. Their best qualities are their conscientiousness, caution and analytical minds. More noticeable traits are their pessimism, sympathy, solitude, perfectionism or introversion.

Roll

Voice and Mannerisms of... (1d6)

Personality Quirk (1d8)

1

Dr. Stephen Hawking, except their voice is their real voice and not a robot's voice.

Fatalistic. Automatically fails saving throws.

2

James Earl Jones

Avid collector, buyer and trader of stamps, bugs, coins or other bric-a-brac. Few other interests.

3

Keanu Reeves

Religious, with particular reverence for the sad and bad parts of their good and joyous faith.

4

Alfred Hitchcock

Once widowed, once divorced, & once widowed again as an alternative to being twice divorced.

5

Kathy Bates (as playing Annie Wilkes in the latter half of Misery)

Bureaucratic, even if – if notespecially if – they are not employed as a bureaucrat.

6

Louise Fletcher

Always answers “yes,” “no,” “maybe” or “fine” if at all possible to do so. Little else to say.

7

Home full of rescued animals.

8

Pessimistic, but a pretty good judge of odds. 1 in 6 chance that any prediction of impending doom and danger is accurate, nearly prophetic.